Any Russians coming to Western Europe or the United States, surprised to the number of disabled people who move around freely on the streets, sitting in restaurants and go on trips. It seems that in Russia they are disproportionately less. Actually it is not, although the number of officially disabled people in Russia – one of the lowest in Europe (disability pension receives today, almost every tenth Russian). But the reason for this is not good health of our citizens.
To obtain or confirm their status any disabled person has to spend a lot of effort and nerves. The terms of the confirmation of the accompanying person chronic illness is so confusing and complex that many of those abroad without problems would be considered disabled, we voluntarily give up fighting for the group and the accompanying benefits. In order not to lose the rest of the already fragile health.
In our country there are no conditions for people with physical or psychological problems can live a full life, although caring for them is reflected in the assessment criteria of work of officials and governors.
Approved and forgotten
This year, the Russian government has extended the program “Accessible environment” by 2020. Approved quickly, along with the shortcomings pointed out in the discussion paper, representatives of public organizations of invalids, Public chamber of the Russian Federation and the Russian popular front. In a hurry to catch a wheelchair to lay the money in the budget. Many were not satisfied that the new programme was adopted in haste, without a thorough analysis of what has been done for disabled people before, with no indicators by which to judge the effectiveness of measures taken to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
One of the senior officials somehow not alerted that the raids and the research Center “national examination” of the popular front with the participation of popular controllers from different regions of the country reveal a significant difference between the official reports and assessments of ordinary citizens, in whose interests and created this program.
The reality is that many problems anyway. faced with disabilities, continues to be associated primarily with the lack of barrier-free environment.
In practice, this means that 12.9 million officially registered people with disabilities are often simply not able to leave home to get to the clinic, store or institution. In other words, these people are not able to use the usual benefits available to other citizens.
Meanwhile, for the implementation of the first phase of the state program allocated $ 168,5 billion rubles And the program until 2020 the amount laid almost three times more – 494,7 billion. So the question arises: how will spent such a lot of money, which could have been really supportive of persons with disabilities? The reason for such doubt are the situation related to forbidding urban environment, which every day faced by people with disabilities, leaving the house.
In Moscow, Belovezhskaya street, in the house with special apartments for people in wheelchairs four years, lift was not working: it could not transfer the balance of a service company, and to start the mechanism was nobody. All this time four people with disabilities wrote letters to various authorities, but they simply were not paying attention. The lift was repaired only when the problem is locked in four walls the people of the Moscow TV channel “Trust” took a talk show, leading to him literally in the hands of the Deputy head of the Council and iinspector.
One of the tenants Vladimir Vinogradov, who turned on the TV, pleased with how everything was resolved. After the arrival of the crew disabled installed a handrail from the entrance to the bus stop where the road goes downhill and slippery in winter, and Parking helped to equip, and even the fence set.
On reception to the doctor… on all fours
In January 2016, the former Governor of the Koryak Autonomous district Vladimir Loginov on all fours I reached the stairs of the Khabarovsk regional hospital No. 1 on reception to the doctor-audiologist for a certificate of disability. In Loginov diabetes, amputated leg and partially lost hearing. To lift his wheelchair did not fit, and the poor guy was crawling his way to the doctor. Two weeks before this wife of the ex-Governor warned the hospital about the visit such a patient, but she said that his delivery to the top floor – “her problems”. The couple took the lift on video and released recording.
After the hype in the media district Prosecutor has brought representation to the head physician of the hospital Sergey Pudovikova and filed in court on the Ministry of health and medical institution due to non-adapted lift. The doctor had to publicly apologize. He promised that now any person with a disability in his hospital will be available to any doctor.
In Krasnoyarsk recently has seen several high-profile stories associated with the inaccessibility of the environment. A year ago, the usual inhabitants of houses, protesting against the installation of ramps for a neighbor with a disability and inclusive children’s centre. In June 2016, the pensioner Vladimir Jurat smashed with a sledgehammer the border, which did not allow him to drive the carriage to the clinic. After the incident, the municipality has promised to adapt the entrance and not to ask Jurata material damage. Later he went on hunger strike to on his daily route, finally equipped with the ramps for the sidewalks.
But in July, the worst happened: in the same city killed himself a grown man, who for three years could not leave home due to the lack of a ramp. In the suicide note, he indicated that he no longer wants to be a burden.
Officials justified that offered him and his 78 year old mother alternative: mobile ramp (by the way, the old woman could not cope) and the help of volunteers. And to equip the entrance of the city administration promised during scheduled repair of the house… in the year 2038.
Irkutsk wheelchair users decided to defend their rights through protest. First held a picket in defense of their rights to rehabilitation. But no reaction of the authorities was not followed.
A month later, organized a rally under the slogan: “I want to go”, “For us, the rehabilitation is the right to life,” “It could happen to anyone”. As the Chairman of the Charity Fund for the disabled name of the monk Ilya of Kiev-Pechersk Muromets” Sergey Makeev, in the Irkutsk region there is no rehabilitation centre of regional significance, where the wheelchair users and disabled people with problems of locomotor apparatus was in rehab.
The situation is no better with the adaptation of banks for people with limited mobility. Only 45 percent of banking institutions across the country were equipped with ramps and wide doorways for people in wheelchairs. Of these 45% of banks only half were provided for Parking for persons with disabilities.
In banks I rarely go, but judging by what my friends with disabilities, the situation in banks according to the accessible environment is approximately the same as for the country as a whole — most of the buildings for the disabled not adapted, – has told to journalists the Deputy of the state Duma, the Vice-President of Paralympic Committee of the Russian Federation Oleg Smolin. – Many banks are failing people with disabilities even when the incomes of people with disabilities allow you to get credit. The question specifically addressed the presidential Commission for the disabled where I work. It was decided on the inadmissibility of such discrimination. But banking institutions, it truly is not yet reached.
It was smooth on paper
Unfortunately, we often see that the rules are well written on paper does not always act as they should in life. When you read the government Decree “On measures to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities residential premises and common property in an apartment house” on July 9, 2016 No. 649, it seems that it is a serious step to improve the lives of people with disabilities. In the document, in particular, says that the area around the house where the disabled person should have not slippery and do not loose the coating should be equipped with tactile stripes of embossed tiles and entrance door into the entrance needs to be highlighted in contrasting color. Flight height should not exceed 1.5 cm, and corridors must not already be 1.5 m. Perfect! But enough out of the entrance, as all described in the document seems distant from the life of the imagination.
With disregard for disabled people we encounter most often because the received power documents sin with uncertainty and vagueness.
Enough from Moscow to specify what the height should be the thresholds of the building, where he lives with a disability. It is necessary that the local authorities found the funds for the performance identified in the documentation requirements and most importantly – the desire to help people cut off by pain from the outside world. Ultimately, everything that is written by officials, according to Director of “national expertise” Nikolai Nikolaev, must have a specific dimension, only then can you count on a specific change for the better.
To speak now about what percentage of disabled people needs to improve living conditions very difficult. But we are talking about almost all apartment Fund. “That is why it is important to develop a norm of inspection of an apartment building, which would be applicable in any region, in any municipality. Moreover, it is very important to answer the question: what will be done if the Commission, in some case admits it is impossible to repair. The decision of the government this situation is not spelled out. While it is not known how this case will be respected the rights of the disabled”, – concludes Nikolaev.
The activists of the popular front demand officials fulfill their promises. And, as a rule, after checks are money for creation of accessible environment for people with disabilities. Recently onf checked the accessibility of the subway stations in Nizhni Novgorod for the disabled and visually impaired citizens, railway stations in Sochi, Adler and Novorossiysk.
Drawbacks are eliminated. But every home inspector will not put.
Leaders report on how many ramps and ramps for the disabled set, and that to move them in a wheelchair without assistance is unsafe, no one cares.
The indifference of officials reflects the General attitude of our society towards persons with disabilities.
No matter whether and the creation of an enabling environment for people with disabilities in many cities is still at the level of appeals?
